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Ivanka and Jared’s Power Play

.. agree in a guess Priebus and Bannon will likely go before too long, and agree on your personal smart, younger better for Trump stuff .. also, importantly they are family, and who else does Trump really respect, and respect? .. guessing Trump being politically more a personally valueless guy, than focused on much of anything but winning, which he did, is likely a bit tired of Bannon and that Trump feels Bannon has served his purpose .. i'm a bit surprised Bannon has lasted so long, and even though Bannon says he is happy and solid, the 'suits and restrictive' stuff in yours rings true .. on reading yours i realized i don't really have much of a sense of the younger ones, except that they were both ambitious, focused and disciplined (all in themselves in healthy measure, of course, not bad) .. i'm roughly halfway through this long one ..

August 22, 2016 Issue

How the patrician couple came to have an outsized influence on a populist Presidential campaign.

By Lizzie Widdicombe

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"Dana Schwartz, an entertainment writer at the Observer, wrote for the paper “An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, from One of Your Jewish Employees,” which excoriated Trump for his failure to disavow the illustration as anti-Semitic, and quoted at length the anti-Jewish bile that had been directed at her on Twitter when she criticized him. Then she turned on her boss:

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You went to Harvard, and hold two graduate degrees. Please do not condescend to me and pretend you don’t understand the imagery of a six-sided star when juxtaposed with money and accusations of financial dishonesty. I’m asking you, not as a “gotcha” journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this?
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In response, Kushner made his first public statement of the campaign, publishing a letter entitled “The Donald Trump I Know.” Citing his background as the grandson of Holocaust survivors, Kushner said that the tweet was an innocent mistake. “America faces serious challenges,” he wrote. “A broken economy, terrorism, gaping trade deficits. . . . Intolerance should be added to that list. I’m confident that my father-in-law . . . will be successful tackling these challenges.”"

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"Charlie [Jared's father] Kushner had an outsized presence in New Jersey’s Jewish community. At work, he was meticulous and focussed. He kept his huge desk completely empty and had a closet full of blue and white dress shirts, each hung an inch apart. He was generous, making large donations to charities. “If you met him right now, you’d walk away saying, ‘He’s the most charming, nicest person I’ve ever met,’ ” an associate told me.

But Charlie had another side, which former associates describe as “threatening,” “nasty,” and “vindictive.” One former Kushner Companies executive said, “If you pissed him off, it was like somebody gave him drugs. He was like an animal, cursing and foaming at the mouth.”

A disciplined man who avoided the press, Kushner was no Trump. But he had Trumpian qualities, such as a tendency to withhold payment from venders like contractors, cleaners, and architects, forcing them to accept a fraction of their fee."


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"Kushner received a two-year prison sentence, and spent eighteen months in a federal penitentiary in Montgomery, Alabama, before being transferred to a halfway house in Newark. Students at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy wore duct tape over their sweatshirts, to hide the family name.

Jared Kushner describes his father’s downfall as the defining event of his life."

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"I overlapped with Kushner [Jared] at Harvard, where he cut a noticeable figure. On a campus full of T-shirts and cargo shorts, he wore dress shirts and jeans from the then trendy label 7 for All Mankind. And he drove a Range Rover around campus. “He didn’t do it with a sense of humor,” one classmate recalled. “He did it, like, ‘I’m fucking rich.’”"

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"For a college student, Kushner was uncommonly pious and devoted to his family. He called his parents every day. On Fridays, he ate in a kosher dining hall, either Hillel or the Chabad house, which is affiliated with the Lubavitcher Hasidim. At the Fly, new members are subjected to initiation hazing: seniors will demand that they clean a dorm room, or drink warm gin. Kushner encouraged them to come to Shabbat dinner at Chabad. Hirschy Zarchi, the rabbi at Chabad, said, “Can you imagine? New initiates. He said, ‘You have to come and have dinner and be exposed to Jewish ideas.’" ”

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"At twenty-four, Jared started running Kushner Companies. He pushed to make an audacious move: get out of New Jersey and try to make it in New York."

[ which brought the thought following in the steps of his father-in-law? .. guessing this bit is a bit over halfway down ]

"One former editor said, “He hates reporters and the press. Viscerally.”"

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushners-power-play

lol .. can't see it's been on the board so hope it's new for others, too ..